Act 7
Registration of Business Names Act
2008
or she is dead of his or her personal representative, or of the
directors and officers of the corporation, as the case may be,
within three months after the business has ceased to
operate, to send by registered post or deliver to the
Registrar notice in the prescribed form that the firm or
individual or corporation has ceased to carry on business.
(2) Where the individual, firm or corporation is bankrupt or in
liquidation, the notice in subsection (1) above shall be delivered
by the receiver, trustee or liquidator, as the case may be.
(3) On receipt of the notice referred to in subsection (1) above,
the Registrar may cancel the entry in the register relating to
such individual, firm or corporation.
(4) Where the Registrar has reasonable cause to believe that
any individual, firm or corporation registered under this
Act is not carrying on business, he or she may send to the
individual, firm or corporation by registered post and by
publication in the media, a notice that unless a response is
received to such notice within twelve weeks from the date
thereof the entry in the register relating to such individual,
firm or corporation shall be cancelled.
(5) Where the Registrar receives a response from the
individual, firm or corporation to the effect that the
individual, firm or corporation is not carrying on business
or does not within twelve weeks after the date of the notice
receive a response, he or she may cancel the entry in the
register relating to such individual, firm or corporation.
(6) Where, in the case of a firm, individual or corporation
registered under this Act, there occurs after the registration
an event in consequence of which the continuance of the
business under the business name under which such firm,
individual or corporation has been carrying on business no
longer entails registration under this Act, the individual,
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